The Cross cd-albums still rare?

Hey'all,

back in the day, beginning of the nineties, I remember The Cross albums on CD were seen as extremely rare, right? I remember seeing Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know on some recordfare for 75euro.

Now, a lot has changed since then. How much would they fetch nowadays?

And yes, in case you're wandering, I'm selling Shove It/Mad Bad etc/Blue Rock. jf.wiersma@gmail.com

But seriously, in times where you can download anything, from Hijack my Heart to Feeling, Feelings, how are those prices nowadays? I also remember ridiculously high prices for the Scandal and The Miracle cd-singles, is that still the case? Shouldn't there be an official b-side compilation to avoid that?

anyway, cheerz,
SMA

Shove It is available in stores, the others are still as rare as always. Why they aren't re-issued is a mystery to me. They'd sell like crazy, every major Queen-fan'd get them (especially if they included interesting bonus-tracks or something).

It would be nice to see them re-released with the 12" mixes and B-Sides.

I can't see it selling well though.

They will definately NOT sell good enough for EMI/Queen Productions (or any label/company) to make it worthwhile. It's just not marketable.
The only persons that ever bought them in the first place where the hardcore Queen-fans. Even the 'regular' fans ignored the albums back in the day. Now, with bonustracks and all, it would still only be a select part of the Queen FAN base that would buy them - which is never enough for a commercial institute to release ANYthing.

Same with the Strange Frontier and Fun in Space cd-releases. Which were commercial flops. The first (and only) cd-pressing -which was realy modest in number!- is still not sold out today.
The The Cross albums would probably sell even less then those two albums, as they have already been released on cd format.

And 'yes', they are still considered rare and have the same price tag. That price is set by collectors - for collectors a download is totally worthless - they want the original (otherwise they would not be collectors, right?! ;-)

Everything can be sold out - you just need to work hardly actually, but it's not the QP case...

Box set with 3 studio albums, 1 CD for bonus stuff, Manipulator, b-sides, outtakes, 1 CD for Astoria show or any other, small edition, selling over QOL or OIQFC (as it originally was with Queen Rocks - The Video and Cyberbarn which I personally could buy only via fan club in those days) only... I think it's possible in some way though no-one will spend their time and money on that job. By the way Shove It was released on Virgin, while others on EMI - it has to do some additional work too.

Shove It is not rare at all, Blue Rock is not so impossible-to-find-damned-CD (even here in Russia, that is strange for me).

Edit: they have outtakes or something like that from HFE and LLB - it can help to sell out too :) 2007 - 20th anniversary of forming the band, the re-union show, Brian and Paul are guests (Brian plays live solo from LLB), hey, man - I'm just a dreamer!

The SHOVE IT CD was never hard to get. The BLUE ROCK CD is not so easy to find nowadays, but it was never an expensive album. MAD, BAD & DANGEROUS TO KNOW is another story ...not to mention most of the CD-singles.

Anyway, QP has nothing to do with THE CROSS - and SHOVE IT has nothing to do with EMI (it is a Virgin release), while the other albums are EMI-Electrola.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Wilki Amieva wrote: [/QUOTENAME]SHOVE IT has nothing to do with EMI (it is a Virgin release), while the other albums are EMI-Electrola.[/QUOTE]

MBADTK is EMI-Parlophone release

Only in the UK Serry - in Europe it's Electrola too

Yes, that's right. Sorry

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Wilki Amieva wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Anyway, QP has nothing to do with THE CROSS - and SHOVE IT has nothing to do with EMI (it is a Virgin release), while the other albums are EMI-Electrola.[/QUOTE]
Fine, but it doesn't make any difference.

Blue Rock wasn't even released in the UK as for as I can remember. I bought my cassette of Blue Rock when I was in France. The only verions I saw on sale were imports on CD which cost about £22.

I was lucky enough to be MD&DTK on CD at a CD fair for £9.99, after seeing it in RC Mag valued @ £100. (It is original and not a copy as well.)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]jeroen wrote: [/QUOTENAME]They will definately NOT sell good enough for EMI/Queen Productions (or any label/company) to make it worthwhile. It's just not marketable.
The only persons that ever bought them in the first place where the hardcore Queen-fans. Even the 'regular' fans ignored the albums back in the day. Now, with bonustracks and all, it would still only be a select part of the Queen FAN base that would buy them - which is never enough for a commercial institute to release ANYthing. [/QUOTE]

Agreed, otherwise Roger would have gotten this done.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]jeroen wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Wilki Amieva wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Anyway, QP has nothing to do with THE CROSS - and SHOVE IT has nothing to do with EMI (it is a Virgin release), while the other albums are EMI-Electrola.[/QUOTE]
Fine, but it doesn't make any difference.[/QUOTE]

I found that info interesting to read, even if no "difference" was made.

Cheers,

Ogre-

In JB hi-fi there was a section for them.

If I recall correctly Blue Rock was only a German release due to relatively poor sales of Shove It! and Mad Bad and Dangerous to know in the UK. Still worth tracing a copy if you can find it though - nice to have all 3 (smarm smarm) bought as they were released!